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Urban expansion indicators of cities "Case study for Arab cities
Journal of Techniques, 2020 Urban population growth requires an appropriate and suitable place for future population to cope with the expected urban expansion of major cities in developing countries, and to identify an indicator urban expansion to guide planners, architects and ...
Nabil T. Ismael
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Urban expansion: theory, evidence and practice
Buildings & Cities, 2023 Cities accommodate population growth both through the densification of their existing footprints and through their expansion into their rural peripheries. In recent decades, most population growth has been accommodated through urban expansion.
Shlomo Angel
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Study on the Urban Fringe Based on the Expansion–Shrinking Dynamic Pattern
, 2021 The urban fringe, as a part of an urban spatial form, plays a considerably major role in urban expansion and shrinking. After decades of rapid development, Chinese cities have advanced from a simple expansion stage to an expansion–shrinking-coexistence ...
Changqing Sui, Wei Lu
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A Novel Approach to Predicting Urban Expansion by the Urban Scaling Law at a Single-City Scale
, 2023 Rapid urban expansion caused by vigorous urban population growth brought up various socioeconomic and eco-environmental problems, which have important ramifications for sustainable development across the world.
Zhuofan Zheng +4 more
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Ecological Indicators, 2023 The rapid urban expansion in drylands has threatened local fragile vegetation in recent years. Evaluating the urban expansion impacts on local vegetation in drylands effectively is crucial for promoting regional urban sustainability.
Tao Qi +4 more
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A meta-analysis of global urban land expansion. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2011 The conversion of Earth's land surface to urban uses is one of the most irreversible human impacts on the global biosphere. It drives the loss of farmland, affects local climate, fragments habitats, and threatens biodiversity.
Karen C Seto +3 more
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, 2022 The regional disparity of urban expansion varies significantly in China’s different regions, hindering sustainable socioeconomic development. However, most studies to date have focused on a single aspect of urban expansion, e.g., urban spatial ...
Kaifang Shi +3 more
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Remote Sensing, 2019 Urban expansion is one of the most dramatic forms of land transformation in the world and it is one of the greatest challenges in achieving sustainable development in the 21st century.
Shaikh Abdullah Al Rifat, Weibo Liu
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Exploring Drivers of Urban Expansion
, 2016 Spatial patterns in urban land development are linked with the level and type of economic activity. Here, we develop a statistical model to explore the relationship between the spatially explicit population density and the type of land use in a region. The relationship between the type of land use (urban/non-urban) and the level of economic activity is
Anna Shchiptsova +2 more
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